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2008: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao from the Shadows of Mao series, by Huang Zhong Yang.

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Groom and bride smile at a wedding in South California, 1956. Kodachrome slide.

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U.S. Soldier picking up the corpse of a dead Viet Cong soldier, 1960s

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German soldiers hang teenagers suspected of aiding Soviet soldiers, 1942

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This is Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov, the Soviet ethnographer who deciphered the Mayan writing system, 1980.

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Vaudeville comedian Egbert Austin, or "Bert" Williams with and without blackface make-up, 1921

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My grandma and her grandma at Disneyland in 1959

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American Catholic cartoon (1959) showing Mary destroying communism with the two bolts of ‘Our Penances’ and ‘Our Prayers’.

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Auschwitz officer Irma Grese on trial for war crimes at only 22 years old, September 1945

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Lovers' lane overlooking Manhattan, New Jersey, 1983

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Me 1980, Germany. During Punk / New Wave Era

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American Nazi Party, 1961, 425x345

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